Nikki Haley burned Donald Trump in her SOTU responseĪnd she did, kind of. Last night it fell to Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina and daughter of immigrants from India, to deliver the response, and much of what she had to say was the traditional boilerplate delivered with the usual glassy-eyed prompter-face.īut with a twist. Unless you do something outrageous, like take a sip of water halfway through, these Official Responses are even more stillborn and instantly forgotten than the main speech. In those days they only had the 20-car motorcade, not the 40-car one they've got today." I would have a modicum of respect for Jeb Bush if he were to blow whatever loose change is left of his 100 million bucks with one final campaign ad along the lines I suggested a few months back: "I come from a humble upbringing. This is when the other party picks some allegedly rising star to "respond" to the speech - not by addressing anything the guy actually said, but by droning robotically some bland pap that was loaded into the prompter long before the President began speaking, and usually involving some "compelling personal story", like growing up the daughter of immigrants or the son of a mailman or whatever. I took it once around the park and slowly, and arrived home just as President Obama was schmoozing and gladhanding his way out the door.īut, alas, I had forgotten the Official Response to the State of the Union. That's my approach to the State of the Union. Groucho barks at his driver: "I told you to slow that nag down.
There's still a few minutes left, says the doorman.
In A Night At The Opera, Groucho Marx's carriage, running late, pulls up at the opera house, and he asks whether he's missed the opera.
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